Are they coming out with a new one this year?
Anyone know?
Anyone know?
Microsoft flight simulator
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I don't think so.
Wow I remember the old school flight simulator back on the 486. Those were the old school days
Flight Sim X is getting a bit long in the tooth (been out for over 2 years).
I play both flight sim X and X-plane (www.x-plane.org).
MS Flight Sim has some good features (and for the really good pilots a better flight model according to some) such as airport navigation, auto changing of nav and com freqs but I find the cockpit desigh cumbersome having to open different windows for throttles, coms etc etc.
X-Plane is good if I just want to quickly jump in a plane and practice my landings.
Oh and I find that X-plane runs better on my system (Pentium D 805, 1GB, Vista-64).
I play both flight sim X and X-plane (www.x-plane.org).
MS Flight Sim has some good features (and for the really good pilots a better flight model according to some) such as airport navigation, auto changing of nav and com freqs but I find the cockpit desigh cumbersome having to open different windows for throttles, coms etc etc.
X-Plane is good if I just want to quickly jump in a plane and practice my landings.
Oh and I find that X-plane runs better on my system (Pentium D 805, 1GB, Vista-64).
^ Wasn't there an expansion for FSX released recently?
I'm interested in seeing how DCS turns out myself.
Yeah it's called the Accelerator Pack which gives you a few new planes some extra missions but nothing over all earth shaking.
DCS looks good from the screenshots but the final proof will be in the shooting.
That's a bit odd, since the original was made by Kuju, which recently released Rail Simulator, an unofficial sequel IMO. If MS was interested in a sequel, why didn't they just publish RS and call it TS2?
There actually was a lot of politics going on with Train Simulator 2. Microsoft had previously planned on a TS2 that they canceled for unclear reasons if I remember correctly. Not sure if Kuju was developing it or not, but it was not inhouse. Last year they accounced they were working on a new TS2 in house, based on the flight simulator X engine.
Hah! I remember the one that we had on the 286! Also remember that me, sis and dad got kinda motion sick from the hyper modern graphics
Hah! I remember the one that we had on the 286! Also remember that me, sis and dad got kinda motion sick from the hyper modern graphics
MS Flight Sim was around even before the 80286.
In fact is started out on the Commodore 64 (Wanted it on that platform but never the floppy drive for it).
When we got our first DOS based system in late 1984 was able to get a copy of MS Flight Simulator 2 which I played a bit though didn't have the joystick.
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That depends on how much time and effort you put into them with mods. Out of the box it isn't that realistic, but for my dad, for instance, who has over 8 DVDs worth of mods it is pretty spot on.
That depends on how much time and effort you put into them with mods. Out of the box it isn't that realistic, but for my dad, for instance, who has over 8 DVDs worth of mods it is pretty spot on.
For instrument training, pretty dead on.
So spot on, it's the base for many real-world simulators.
I've not played MSFS in a while, I need to get FS-X, install it and re hook-up my GoFlight stuff and play is sometime.
Dunno about MS FS but there's version of X-plane that's been FAA approved for pilot training so there's gotta be some pretty good accuracy.
Sometimes the first person shooter players get a bit obsessive about their games but I'm not sure they can match of the hard core flightsimmers who go from multiple screens/computers right through to wiring up salvaged panels to make simulator cockpits.
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Hah! I remember the one that we had on the 286! Also remember that me, sis and dad got kinda motion sick from the hyper modern graphics
MS Flight Sim was around even before the 80286.
In fact is started out on the Commodore 64 (Wanted it on that platform but never the floppy drive for it).
When we got our first DOS based system in late 1984 was able to get a copy of MS Flight Simulator 2 which I played a bit though didn't have the joystick.
I had the C64 and the 1541 drive to play Flight Simulator™.
The level of detail for the game was amazing (at the time), and I really felt like I was flying a real plane.
Somewhere I still have that floppy.
J.
My buddy's a professional pilot and he uses MS Flight Sim all the time for practicing procedural stuff. Instrument approaches and the like.
It doesn't have a lot to do with actual flying but for just by the numbers stuff it works. After all, you don't need to know the feel of a plane to enter a pattern.
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I know I'm getting better at FS2002. Just the other day, I made a picture perfect landing for the first time in all of my 1,752 attempts.
Oh, and for the record, that is not an exaggeration.
J.
Oh, and for the record, that is not an exaggeration.
J.
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